Rereading The machine in the garden : nature and technology in American culture /
Erbacher, Eric,editor.
Maruo-Schröder, Nicole,editor.
Sedlmeier, Florian,editor.
Reexamining the trope of the 'Machine in the Garden' first laid out in one of the founding texts of American studies by Leo Marx 50 years ago, the contributors to this volume explore the lasting influence of this concept on American culture and the arts, rereading it as a dialectic wherein nature is as much technologized as technology is naturalized.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reexamining the trope of the 'Machine in the Garden' first laid out in one of the founding texts of American studies by Leo Marx 50 years ago, the contributors to this volume explore the lasting influence of this concept on American culture and the arts, rereading it as a dialectic wherein nature is as much technologized as technology is naturalized.
Marx, Leo, 1919-
Nature
Technology